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Executive Director at The Document Foundation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Florian Effenberger is executive director at The Document Foundation, the legal entity behind LibreOffice.[1]
Florian Effenberger | |
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Nationality | German |
Occupation | Executive Director at The Document Foundation |
Call sign | floeff |
Website | effenberger |
He started his work on OpenOffice.org and eventually became Co-Lead of the Marketing Project in July 2007.[2] In January 2010, Effenberger was elected Lead,[3] a role he held until he stepped down in October 2010, in favor of his engagement with the group behind the LibreOffice fork.[4]
Florian Effenberger is one of the founders of The Document Foundation,[5] and one of its spokespersons.[6] He became chairman of the board in October 2011,[7] a role he held until February 2014.
As the founder of The Document Foundation, the association Freies Office Deutschland e.V.,[8] he holds a seat at the supervisory board and previously served in the board of directors.[9] In December 2012 The Document Foundation announced that Effenberger is now hired.[10] In March 2014, he was promoted executive director.[11]
He is one of the creators of the Munich open source meetups[12] and invented the idea of open source cooking.[13]
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